Olympic fans may know that Cortina d’Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games once before, in 1956. Less well known is that 15 years ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

The death toll in Sweden rose to three after a storm battered Scandinavia Saturday and overnight, with thousands still without power on Sunday. A woman and child make their way with their luggage at ...

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An epic outdoor cooking experiment — frying juicy steaks inside an old WW2 helmet for unbelievable flavor and fun. Fruit recall as threat-to-life warning issued Sanders on shutdown vote: ‘A very bad ...

Stockholm was among the most romantic places to be in Europe during World War II, according to Pat DiGeorge. It's where her parents, Herman Allen and Hedvig Johnson Allen, met in 1944, she said in an ...

World War II placed neutral Sweden in a uniquely tense position. In this video, we explore the war from the Swedish perspective - how the country balanced diplomacy, economic survival, and national ...

War has been part and parcel of humanity since the proverbial beginning of time, and people have clad themselves in protective gear and armor for thousands of years. Helmets worn in combat are not a ...

Two weeks before the D-Day operation on June 6, 1944, the 101st Airborne Division (aka "The Screaming Eagles") was getting ready for battle when they realized that they needed a quick way to get the ...

A Swedish startup is taking defence tech back to basics — by building the country’s first TNT factory since the Cold War. Stockholm-based Swebal has secured a €3mn investment for the plant, slated to ...

As darkness enveloped Stockholm one evening last May, the city set into its nocturnal rhythm and its criminal underworld came alive. In a home in Västerås, a lakeside city 60 miles west of the capital ...

Peter Pentz, a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, sees many similarites between the stamp and the Sutton Hoo helmet. John Fhær Engedal Nissen / The National Museum of Denmark Two years ago, ...